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 PRIVATE ACTS OF THE FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS or THE UNITED STATES, Passed at the First Session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Thursday, the fourth dag of Zllarch, A. D. 1869, and was athourned without day on Saturday, the tenth day of April, A. D. 1869. ULYSSES S. GRANT, President. SCHQYLER Cormx, Vice-President and President of the Senate. HENRY B. ANTHONY was chosen President of the Senate, pro tempore, on the twenty-third day of March, A. D. 1869, and so acted until the twenty-ninth day of said March ; was again chosen on the ninth day of April, A. D. 1869, and so acted until the end of the session. JAMEs G. BLAINE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. CHAP. IV. — An Act't0 remove the Charge gl Desertian ffrom certain Soldiersqf the Second March 26, 1869. North Carolina ounted ln antry. "'""`“"_ WHEREAS it appears from the evidence of certain officers of the second Charge of de- North Carolina mounted infantry, the records of the War Department, ?fg;§°‘;0;;;'i;;’v°d and the official orders of Major-General Schofield, that certain soldiers soldiers of the were detached from the second North Carolina mounted infantry to join *§°°’;$l North L the third North Carolina mounted infantry to make a raid into the °j}§;,i;;{,§?un enemy’s lines in June, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, for the purpose 1870, ch. 206. of destroying railroad bridges and harassing the enemy, and while absent Pm- P· °*7· from their regiments upon such duty they were borne upon the rolls of the second North Carolina mounted infantry as deserters: Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to remove the charge of desertion or absence without leave from the following-named soldiers of the second North Carolina mounted infantry: Company A: Joseph Thompson, Job Rice, A. J. Massey, John W. Bullman, James Approved, Kinsey Kensley, George West, William Hunter, Alfred Fox, Allen Fox. Company B: Henry M. Revis, George M. Roberts, Jacob M. Revis, Adam F. Eller, Pinkney Fox, Robert L. Fox, Spencer Rice, Patterson Reece, Robert H. Pickens, Calvin Maney, Sheperd Deaver, Robert Sams, J. B. Gosnel, Peter M. Hughy, Alexander Beachboard, John S. VVest, Edward Sams, Jeremiah Buckner, Thomas D. Cole, James P. Approved, John B. Sage, James M. Cole, John H. Payne. Company C: Lewis W. Ramsey, Samuel Rector, Manley Ball, Hiram Rice, John H. Wild, John Ramsey, George W. Freeman, Andrew J. Freeman, Robert Anderson, `David Lunsford, Jacob H. Wild, John M. A Wild, Jackson Paris, William D. Perry, George N. Stines, Job Ramsey, Jackson Ramsey, Abner Brooks, Lewis Paris, Benjamin F. Freeman, . Seth Freeman, Jasper Brown, James Pain. - Company D: Leander Wright.